After a week of being in the hospital, Astrid was finally discharged. Anna gladly moved Astrid into her room which they share together. Elsa loves having Astrid around too, Astrid feels welcomed to the Arrendelle family.

Astrid stretches exiting the bedroom yawning. She walks into the kitchen seeing Elsa cooking away at the stove.

"Good morning, Astrid! Did you sleep well?" Elsa asks with a smile.

"I did, thank you. The stitches and broken bones are really being a bother though," Astrid says tiredly.

Elsa smiles sadly and gives her a hug, planting a gentle kiss into her dirty blonde hair. Astrid wraps her arms as best as she can around her older sister.

"They'll heal nicely with plenty of rest, love and the right nutrients." Elsa smiles and says, "Speaking of! I made breakfast! Bacon, sausages and eggs!"

Astrid cheers and wolfs down breakfast greedily. She moans in euphoria with every bite; the hospital meals weren't exactly pleasant. Elsa walks back into the kitchen and begins washing up watching the trees leaves sway gently in the wind.

"Good morning, sisters!" Anna squeals from the doorway.

Elsa and Astrid laugh, Anna snatches her plate off the counter and wolfs her food down standing up. Safe to say, Anna was quite hungry herself.

"Don't you have the officers coming out today?" Anna asks Astrid.

Elsa's eyes widen in shock and she drops the glass into the sink making it shatter, the two girls in the next room jump from the sound.

"Gosh, I need to stop being so clumsy!" Elsa scolds herself.

Anna stares at Elsa's back. She's never known Elsa to be clumsy, she decides to drop it and continues her conversation with Astrid.

"Yeah, they're actually coming out. The doctors told me to rest as much as possible so they offered to come to me instead," Astrid replies.

Elsa flinches hearing Astrid's comment only to accidentally cut her left palm.

"Holy!" She yells.

Anna and Astrid look at one another, they look over at Elsa to see blood pooling in her left hand.

"Elsa! Holy shit!" Anna exclaims in shock rushing to her.

"Anna! Language!" Elsa scolds.

Despite her gushing flesh wound, she still scolds Anna for cursing. Anna shakes her head pulling a chair out for Elsa to sit down.

"Just leave the sink. I'll sort it once I've bandaged my hand," Elsa says.

Anna nods. She dashes to the bathroom to grab the first aid kit to help her sister out. She brings it into the kitchen and brings out alcohol wipes and tweezers.

Elsa nervously eyes the tweezers and says, "It was just a clean cut with a shard, there isn't any glass in my hand I don't think."

Anna bites her lip nervously and nods accepting Elsa's explanation. Anna grabs a cloth and begins dabbing away at the small spillage of blood which actually took a few minutes then wipes her sister's hand with care. As the wipe comes into contact with Elsa's skin, she bites the inside of her cheeks harshly.

"Do you want me to do that for you, Anna? After all, you've got to head into college." Astrid says.

"College can wait a few minutes," Anna says dismissively.

Elsa frowns at Anna's response. She's worked so hard to have Anna chase her dream, she has been paying for her little sister's college tuition and kept pushing her to work hard. Elsa doesn't want Anna to turn out the way she has, stealing to feed herself and shelter the family.

"But—" Elsa goes to protest.

"Elsa, I'm always there. A few minutes isn't going to kill anyone," Anna says stubbornly.

Not wanting an argument to break out, Elsa only sighs and simply nods. Astrid limps out the dining room to the bedroom getting clothes ready for the interview.

"I could use a bath. The doctor did advise me to bathe to relax my sore muscles," Astrid mutters to herself.

She runs herself a hot bubble bath. She lowers into the bathtub and sighs in relief as the hot water meets her skin instantly relaxing her.

Anna finishes tending to Elsa's wound and shoots off for college. Out of nervousness, Elsa checks Astrid is preoccupied and makes sure her secret hidden room is secured. Officers coming over to the house when she has to go out to her cover jobs is very unsettling, her secret double life mustn't come out. Not now or ever.

Her phone goes off and she quickly checks to see a message from Merida.

Meri berry 😋🍓
Hey, Els. Have you seen the news? You might want to see this...

Elsie phant 😱🐘
No? I'll check it out now

Elsa turns the TV over to news. Her heart drops as she sees her confrontation with Winter Storm in the alley.

"This is the only ever sighting we have of our local criminals Winter Storm, Winter Chaos, Autumn Fire and Blazing Flame!"

She turns the TV off and quickly messages her friend back in panic.

Elsie phant 😱🐘
Oh my God, how did we let this happen?! What if this gets us caught?!

Meri berry 😋🍓
Elsa, we can't panic right now! We'll look into this, there has to be a way to erase that footage! I promise you that we will sort this!

Elsie phant 😱🐘
Does Punzie know about this?

Meri berry 😋🍓
I don't have a clue, I've been trying to get a hold of her since seven and I've had nothing. We both know how much of a morning person and phone addict she is, she could be with her neighbour Gothel

Elsie phant 😱🐘
It's ten almost eleven, she should be done by now! What if something has happened?

Meri berry 😋🍓
Elsa, take a breath. She's probably perfectly fine, let's just wait for her to get back to us before we lose our minds, okay?

Elsa sighs and rubs her head. She really had to go back into work today, she may have money in store but she still has to work to cover her tracks. She walks into her bedroom and gets changed into her uniform for the café.

Elsa walks out her room and knocks on the bathroom door gently.

"Astrid, I'm about to head out to work! I'm sorry that I'm not able to stay today but I do have to get going..." Elsa says nervously playing with the loose strands of her platinum blonde hair.

"Don't worry about it, Elsa. I'll be okay! Have a good day at work!" Astrid replies cheerily.

Elsa smiles and locks the front door behind herself. She jumps the bus into town ready for another hard days work.

Across town in his home, Jack is watching the news freaking himself out about him being caught on camera. Although, it wasn't anything that would seriously give away his identity it still troubles him. He can't go to prison, he can't leave his little sister and brother all alone. He wouldn't know what to do with himself if he was locked up behind bars not knowing how Emma or Jamie are surviving.

"I can't believe this. I was so sure that those cameras were off!" Hiccup says angrily.

"Let's think about this! This has never happened before! What could have caused this?" Flynn says making everyone think.

Flynn looks off into the other room. He couldn't think of anything at all and just wanted to look like he was trying to think. He was the action, Jack was action and a little brainy and Hiccup is a lot more knowledgable about technology than him. Hiccup is more logic.

"You guys had that confrontation with the other two, right?" Flynn asks.

The gears start working in Hiccup's head. Winter Chaos and Autumn Fire had earpieces, they were talking to someone who he could only assume was Summer Mayhem.

"What're you thinking, Hic?" Jack asks noticing Hiccup's silence.

"I had the cameras hacked but they must have too! We must have corrupted each other's systems and the cameras must have turned back on." Hiccup exclaims.

"No way! That can happen?!" Flynn exclaims in shock.

Hiccup nods. His main priority had completely changed, he was going to visit family today but now that's changed so he can better their systems to prevent things like that happening again. Honestly, he'd been avoiding visiting family for a long while. His family life hasn't been the easiest.

"You know what? I'm just going to work on sorting the system out, we don't want something like this happening again." Hiccup declares.

He shoots off to his place to re-evaluate the system bettering their security. Once he got home, he grabs his laptop and sets it up ready on the kitchen island. He takes through the fridge and cupboards but finds nothing to eat or drink.

Toothless begins barking at Hiccup. Hiccup strokes his dog grabbing his wallet. He re-fills the water and food bowl finishing the packet of food.

"I better go and get some shopping in, hadn't I?" Hiccup says rolling his eyes.

He really didn't want to bother but he didn't want to keep delaying shopping for necessities like food, drinks and pet shopping.

Once inside, he starts grabbing stuff off of shelves not really caring much about what he's actually putting into the cart. Suddenly, he notices a woman who has a head full of red curly hair.

"That's the woman from the club!" Hiccup says to himself.

He nervously ruffles his hair dusting his shirt off. A man behind him starts laughing, Hiccup hears this and turns around.

"Something funny, man?" Hiccup asks with a slight glare.

The guy completely ignores the threat and wipes away his humorous tear. He says, "You've got no chance, buddy! Nobody has a chance with her, she's cold and dismissive. Put the last guy into the hospital with a broken arm."

Despite the warning, Hiccup couldn't help but grow more curious of the red head. She really has his full attention if anyone saw him right now, they'd think he is a stalker. The man who previously warned him off the red head has his phone recording the scene, he wants Hiccup to  get his ass beat by the red headed lass.

"Hi there." He says with his signature smirk.

Merida grabs her items off the shelf loading them into her basket listening to her music blissfully unaware of the flirt beside her. He stares in disbelief as she ignores him, he notices the earphone wires and sighs in relief. His ego has just been saved—not for long.

He goes to tap her shoulder only to have his arm twisted behind his back.

"H-Hey, calm down!" Hiccup exclaims.

Merida quickly lets go and picks her basket back up off of the floor. Hiccup rubs his arm and helps the red head her pick her shopping up off of the floor.

"Leave it!" Merida snaps angrily.

Hiccup raises his eyebrow at the Scottish woman. He was entangled with her accent, mellow and broad.

"Hey, nice accent. Scottish, right?" Hiccup says trying to smooth his way in.

"Yeah, what's it to you pretty boy?" Merida growls aggressively.

Hiccup smirks and ruffles his hand through his hair.

"So you think I'm pretty?" He chuckles flirtatiously.

Merida glares at him grabbing her last few items walking away leaving Hiccup behind. He is honestly in disbelief at the woman, he was intrigued yet he felt humiliated. His ego had taken quite the beating. The guy filming immediately posted the video on reddit under r/flirtingfails.

"This is golden!" The guy laughs running out the store.

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Hi guys! 😊 Not the longest chapter in the world but it's something! 😅 Hiccup and Merida meet again! 😉 r/flirtingfails, am I right? 😂 How will Astrid's interview go? Why was she in that state? Will Hiccup's bruises ego ever heal? Find out in the next one! I hope you enjoyed ☺️

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Leah'xo